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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Keith Stanovich
Breve
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
2. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Grapheme
Receptive language
Syllable Instruction
GORT
3. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
Old English
ALTA
Cognitive Assessment
4. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Raw score
James Hinshelwood
Analytic
MSLE
5. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Old English
Kinesthetic
Accommodation
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
6. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Vr
Dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Standard Scores
7. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Reliability
Phonemic Awareness
Achievement test
8. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Chall's Stage 0
Phonology
Samuel T. Orton
Composite Score
9. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Affix
Stanine Scores
Phonics
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
10. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Composite Score
Open Syllable
Sight Words
CTOPP
11. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Tactile
Mathew Effect
Curriculum referenced tests
Base Word
12. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
V-e
ADHD
Cedilla
13. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Synthetic Instruction
Open Syllable
CTOPP
Vr
14. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Suffix
Anglo Saxon
Comprehension
Chall's Stage 0
15. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Old English
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Mastery level
Base Word
16. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Norm-referenced tests
Percentile
Digraph
Raw score
17. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Sound Symbol Association
Quadrigraph
Norm-Referenced Test
18. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Curriculum referenced tests
Kinesthetic
Towre
IDEA
19. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Phonics
Mastery level
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
ESL
20. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Towre
Reading Comprehension Support
Whole Language
Samuel T. Orton
21. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
VV
Components of Reading Instruction
Dyslexia
Norm-Referenced Test
22. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Suffix
Reading Comprehension Support
Greek layer of language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
23. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Phonology
Phonics approach
Rate
Fluency
24. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
RTI
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Vowel
Battery
25. Closed syllable
Chall's Stage 2
VC
The Norman Conquest
Top-down Reading Approach
26. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Six basic types of syllables
Greek layer of language
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Auditory Learners
27. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Oral Language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Chall's Stage 5
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
28. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Quadrigraph
Reading Comprehension Support
Kinesthetic
29. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Combination
WRAT
Auditory Learners
Syllable Instruction
30. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Impulsivity
Cognition
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Oral Language
31. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Grade equivalents
Sound Symbol Association
Auditory Processing
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32. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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33. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Diagnostic Teaching
Diagnostic tests
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
34. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Keith Stanovich
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Phonemic Awareness
Percentile/ percentile rank
35. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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36. Wide Range Achievement Test
Profile
The Norman Conquest
WRAT
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
37. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
ADHD
Anglo Saxon
Phonics approach
38. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Joe Torgesen
ADHD
GORT
Grade equivalents
39. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Kinesthetic
Stanine Scores
ADHD
Samuel T. Orton
40. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Visual Learners
Expressive language
41. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Cedilla
Mathew Effect
Phonemic Awareness
Norm-Referenced Test
42. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Sound Symbol Association
Percentile
Six basic types of syllables
Visual Processing
43. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Chall's Stage 1
The Norman Conquest
GORT
44. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Letter naming Chart
Derived Score
The Norman Conquest
45. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Ability
Cognition
Vowel
Progress Monitoring
46. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
VV
Latin layer of language
Anglo Saxon
Simultaneous teaching
47. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Standard score
Chall's Stage 5
Quadrigraph
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
48. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Consonant Digraph
Suffix
Fluency
Achievement test
49. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Criterion referenced tests
Syntax
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Fluency
50. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
IEP
Syntax
Samuel T. Orton
Greek layer of language